Known covers:
Postbellum Neighborhood. The Cat Mary. June 25, 2006. Wayharpin Music/ Swampland

Notes:

⁽¹⁾ Filipino Box Spring Hog
- Tom Waits (1992): "Some songs, you work on them for months and they'll never make the journey. They'll be left behind, and someone has to break the news. We had a lot- We had one called Philipino Box Spring Hog [Bone Machine sessions], it was a song about this old neighborhood ritual, and the song didn't make it on the record, it broke my heart, but, it just couldn't come. It was good, maybe it'll come out on something else. It was a song about a, kinda like jumbalaya, you know. Jumbalaya. Crawfish pie. Filet Gumbo." (Source: "KCRW-FM Radio: Morning Becomes Eclectic With Chris Douridas. Date: Santa Monica/ USA. October 12, 1992 (August, 1992 ?))
- Tom Waits (1998): "In my old neighbourhood we used to have rent parties- if you couldn't make the rent. So they'd have a big festival out in the alley and cook a pig and invite a lot of people and charge them money of course - but most people brought something too. So they'd dig a big pit and then cook a big pig and there's like 200 people there and they're out in the alley. But I was staying in this place where I had a mean landlord and everybody hated the landlord and we were gonna have the - wasn't any point in having the rent party cause you'd already been evicted and so somebody got the idea that we' d have this big barbecue - we'd have it in the house. So they sawed all the floorboards out of the living room and dug a hole in the living room and put the box springs of a mattress down there and underneath the box springs there was a lot of madrone and eucalyptus and then we put the pig on top of the box springs and we had this big barbecue. It was memorable, everybody'd still talking about it - so anyway, this is about that... it was an outtake and then it wound up on something else, some compilation record that it came out on. It was an outtake from Bone Machine" (Source: "KCRW-FM: Morning Becomes Eclectic (interviewed by Chris Douridas)" Date: March 31, 1998)
- Tom Waits (1999): "That would fall in the category of surrural. Beefheart-ian. When we lived on Union Avenue in L.A., we had parties. We sawed the floorboards out of the living room, and we took the bed, the box spring, and first dug out the hole and filled it with wood, poured gasoline on it, and lit a fire. And the box spring over the top, that was the grill. We brought in a pig and cooked it right there." (Source: A Q&A about Mule Variations. MSO: Rip Rense, early 1999)
- Michael Barclay (1999): The new song "Filipino Box Spring Hog" is the first time you' ve used your wife's name Kathleen in one of your songs, isn't it? ["Kathleen was sitting in the little red recovery room/ in her underwear and bra/ I was naked to the waist with my fierce black hound/ cooking up a Filipino box spring hog"] TW: "Yeah. She said, "Gee, thanks a lot! You finally stick me in a song, and I'm sitting in a bar in my bra. And you're there with the dog tied to the stool." It's a nice family portrait. I had to do some explaining, but she got a kick out of it." (Source: "Tom Waits, In Dreams" Exclaim: Michael Barclay. April/ May, 1999)

 ⁽²⁾ Rum Soaked Crook: Rum Crook: American cigar brand (Wolf Brothers) with a rum twist, especially popular in the 1960's (thanks to Richard de Witt for pointing out this reference. July 2007)

⁽³⁾ Hollister: The City of Hollister, Hometown California, has a population of 36,000, and is located about 100 southeast of San Francisco and 40 miles east of Monterey. Hollister is located in California's Central Coast region, between the Gavilan and Diablo Ranges of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Hollister is blessed with a temperate climate. Cool ocean air regulates the City's temperature resulting in warm summers and mild winters (Source: City Of Hollister official site, 2003) 

⁽⁴⁾ Little Red's Recovery Room: Located on Highway 116 going west to Sebastopol from Cotati (8175 Gravenstein Hwy., Cotati). Further reading: Little Red's Recovery Room

⁽⁵⁾ Betty: 1. Brown Betty [bròwn béttee] (plural Brown Bet·ties) noun apple dessert: a baked apple dessert made from apples, breadcrumbs, sugar, spices, butter, and sometimes raisins (Encarta® World English Dictionary [North American Edition] © & (P) 2001 Microsoft Corporation. Submitted by Jonathan Platt. February, 2002) 2. (Apple) Brown Betty: An American dessert that dates back to Colonial American time. A 'betty' is a baked pudding, made with layers of sweetened and spiced fruit and buttered bread crumbs. It is usually served with a lemon sauce and/or whipped cream. The most familiar one is the Apple Brown Betty, made with sliced apples and brown sugar. (The Food Reference Website, copyright (c) James T. Ehler 1990 - 2003) 

⁽⁶⁾ Mince (meat) n.: 1. Stew made principally from dried fruits such as currants, saltanas, and raisins. It is the filling of mince pies (American - Australian slang dictionary, O'Shea) 2. Meat cut up very fine. ("The First Hypertext Edition of The Dictionary of Phrase and Fable", E. Cobham Brewer. © 1997-99 Bibliomania.com Ltd)

⁽⁷⁾ Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie: Quoting from: "Sing A Song Of Sixpence". Children's song. Written by: Unknown. Adapted by: Terry Kluytmans: "Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie! When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Wasn't that a dainty dish To set before the king? The king was in his counting house, Counting all the money; The queen was in the parlor, Eating bread with honey The maid was in the garden, Hanging out the clothes; When down came a blackbird Who snapped off her nose!"

⁽⁸⁾ Turkey neck stew: Smothered Turkey Necks in Onion Gravy. Turkey neck stew or gumbo is often served at large gatherings such as Mardi Gras parties in Louisiana. The reason is simple. First, the meat is inexpensive and quite flavorful, but more important, there's a lot of meat on those turkey necks so they're good for a large crowd and the flavor mimics beef, veal, pork and chicken (Chef John Folse & Company site. Copyright © 2002-03 Chef John Folse & Company)